Welcome
 Dear participants, guests and organizers of Ukraine's President Cup, Intercontinental Rally Challenge event, International Rally «European Cup» event, Ukrainian Championship Prime Yalta Rally 2011 event.
Nowadays I am proud that I may finally say: «Please welcome the World Rally in Ukraine!» I am so pleased that I kept my word and managed to prove many people that Ukraine does have all chances to become the leading motorsports state. I am confident that we are on the right way.
Crimean roads, being the solid part of Prime Yalta Rally super stages, are well known across Europe as the most difficult and most interesting. Yalta's special stages have no analogs either in CIS countries or in European states. Therefore we have all the chances to make Intercontinental Rally Challenge Prime Yalta Rally 2011 event a worthily debut in the rally calendar of world level. I do believe that we shall properly stand side-by-side with rallies of Monte-Carlo and Corsica.
I am appreciated for the State support of this event, and would like to thank once again our sponsors, admirers and all those who are involved in Prime Yalta Rally organization. You are the people whom we shan't be able to achieve our goal without.
Evgen Chervonenko
FAU president
Head of the organizing committee of Prime Yalta Rally.
Prime Yalta Rally history
Races in the picturesque places of Crimean peninsula on the toughest mountain serpentines famous Ai-Petri Mountain located near the resort town of Yalta have been held since the Soviet times. There was a time when the USSR Rally Championship Events were held, and Crimean event was considered to be one of the most difficult, not only in the Soviet Union, but also all over the world.
 After the USSR collapse Yalta rally was held several times by name "Antika" (the name to the race was given by Mr. Aksenov in his work), but soon got dissolved until the year 2005 when by the efforts of well-known Ukrainian rally driver Evgen Chervonenko the competition was brought to life again. Involving best sports and promotional specialists, the organizers have managed to show such the level of event that helped to get the European Cup status, without a two-year probation. In 2006, Ukraine has held the FIA European Rally Cup for the first time, and this event became the motorsports sensation in Ukraine. It was that time when FIA representatives considered Yalta's special stages with a higher status potential. However, the organizers had to hold such a high level for other few years in a row. In 2007 the event got a higher coefficient in FIA prestige scale, Crimea hosted more and more motorsports fans from all around the world and rave reviews not only from the audience, but also from the FIA officials. The competition joined more and more crews from all over the Europe. In 2008, Prime Yalta Rally became
the best sports event of the year and it was seriously discussed as the candidate of the IRC series, which
popularity was growing greatly. In 2009 Yalta was attended by a record number of tourists that made the Indian summer in Yalta, as a season prolonging, the season of Prime Yalta Rally. Prime Yalta Rally 2010 was close to the Intercontinental Rally Challenge calendar as never before, but for the enrollment of this event onto the calendar, in fact of World Cup Rally, it took another year. Crimean rally got its place among the IRC candidates after the IRC series organizers inspection headed by the ex-leader of Peugeot team, Mr. Jean-Pierre Nicolas in November 2010. And so awaited news on granting Prime Yalta Rally of Intercontinental Rally Challenge series event has flown around all the European media in December 2010. Everyone was waiting for this moment for so long – Prime Yalta Rally 2011 became 4th event of IRC series.
Intercontinental Rally Challenge (IRC) - a racing series that was born in 2006, and owing to the Eurosport channel support has become the most popular among spectators and participants worldwide.
 Nowadays the IRC series are represented by such eight automobile companies, as: Abarth, Honda, M-Sport, Peugeot, Proton, Ralliart, Škoda and Subaru. Drivers compete for overall victory, and top three drivers, co-drivers and the strongest team receive the prizes.
The IRC series events are held in accordance with the FIA World Rally Championship, and the points at the finish can be obtained by all the teams on the cars of the officially registered cars manufacturers. IRC is completely regulated by the FIA Code.
Traditional "Rally of 10 000 corners' in Corsica, the classic rally in San Remo, a historical event in Scotland, as well as the highlight of the performance - iconic Monte Carlo Rally - all these events from year to year are in the time table of "the alternative World Rally Championship." Difficult tarmac Rally of Canaries, the so-called "distant" Rally in Argentina and most difficult and challenging tarmac rally on mountain serpentines of Yalta. Indeed, it's not that easy to join the IRC series, a candidate must have at least something very special that attracts attention of the organizers of "the alternative World Rally Championship." And Crimea have it all - geographic location, nature, climate, and infrastructure - to adequately represent Ukraine to the world. Early summer it is in this picturesque area, where the organizers, with an enormous government support will be able to adequately represent the Prime Yalta Rally 2011 event.
Contact details. Key contacts:
Alexandra Chervonenko (director)
e-mails: alex_chervonenko@mail.ru, alexandra@yaltarally.com
Vladimir Busygin (deputy clerk of the course)
Mob.tel: +38(050) 4812151
e-mail: busygin2009@gmail.com
HQ location and contact details
Sea station building, 7 Roosevelt street, Yalta city
tel., fax: +38 0564 32 00 94
E-mail: busygin2009@gmail.com
Home page: www.yaltarally.com
From 29 May, 2011 |
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